Japanese turtle smuggler sticks neck out, pleads guilty

Crime Aug. 02, 2011 - 04:00PM JST ( 10 )

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smithinjapanAug. 02, 2011 - 04:44PM JST

Glad these guys were found and are being tried in another nation -- they might just get a fair sentence instead of being let off the hook.
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IronBeardAug. 02, 2011 - 05:05PM JST

Great pun there JT.

I don't suppose the journalist who wrote this headline came from the UK tabloid, 'The Sun' by any chance?
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lucabrasiAug. 02, 2011 - 07:39PM JST

In lunch boxes? They could suffocate! ignoring the turtle's breath can be fatal....
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VirtuosoAug. 02, 2011 - 08:12PM JST

I feel equal disdain for the morons willing to pay out money for a smuggled pet that's protected under CITES. They should be stripped naked, held captive in a large, transparent glass cage and forced to eat rotten vegetables and worms for the rest of their natural lives.
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TrappedAug. 02, 2011 - 09:43PM JST

Now for Japan to step up to the plate and investigate how Australian native fauna finds it's way into shops here. Allow me to refrain from holding my breath.
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BlueWitchAug. 02, 2011 - 10:24PM JST

**VirtuosoAug. 02, 2011 - 08:12PM JST

I feel equal disdain for the morons willing to pay out money for a smuggled pet that's protected under CITES. They should be stripped naked, held captive in a large, transparent glass cage and forced to eat rotten vegetables and worms for the rest of their natural lives. **

Agree　１００％
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SerranoAug. 02, 2011 - 11:17PM JST

"Japanese turtle smuggler sticks neck out"

Har!

"Great pun there JT"

The article is by AFP.
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HeythiaAug. 03, 2011 - 02:03AM JST

"they might just get a fair sentence instead of being let off the hook."

Yea they will probably get more time than a murderer/rapist in the states. That's a fair setence
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anglootakuAug. 03, 2011 - 11:40AM JST

Ninja turtle
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Photoman333Aug. 04, 2011 - 02:18AM JST

Sadly, smuggling parrots into the US is still a huge problem, especially macaws from Brazil. The baby birds have their wings broken, are shoven into plastic pipes, smuggled in, and sold for thousands of dollars to people who want them as ornaments in their house. With no attention they get neurotic, pluck out their feathers, and end up in avian rescue shelters like the one my Temple operates. After you work with birds mistreated like that you start thinking about capital punishment for the smugglers.

Those turtles were lucky.